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From: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: TOPS works with the 2000 w/BridgeBoard!
Message-ID: <907@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 29 Dec 87 17:49:25 GMT
References: <420@tardis.cc.umich.edu> <17263@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich)
Organization: University of Delaware
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Keywords: macintosh ibm amiga tops appletalk 2000 bridgeboard
Summary: But Amiga works with the LANS that really *matter*

In article <17263@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes:
>     This is all very nice, but it doesn't let Amiga-DOS directly
>access files on a remote hard disk.  I'd be very interested in
>a true Amiga interface to TOPS.  It's a bit embarassing that the Amiga
>doesn't fully support any LANs.  

I don't get it. The Amiga has supported NFS via the Ameristar card
for- what?- a year or more now? There are few other micros that
can make that claim (I won't say 'no other micros' cause i don't
want to get blasted). The Ameristar board is priced well enough
that i would get it sooner than i get a hard disk- if i could 
afford either! After all with Ameristar I get 5 Gb for <$1000, which
is $1/5 Mbytes of disk- a good price. TOPS may be great, i don't know, 
but i doubt it will ever be as prevalent as ethernet. Or did i miss 
your point completely? 
   Also, another route is to put a 3com card in your 2000 PC side
and run Karne's code. Looks like pretty full support to me. 

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ron (rminnich@udel.edu)